older antique radios

[Russ]

I am just curious if anyone here uses antique radios to listen to their collection of OTR. I myself use a small am transmitter with my computer to listen to mine on my collection of radios or while I am out in the yard working.

[calfkillerotr]

Never tried that, but sounds interesting

[Russ]

here is one of the radios that I like to use to listen to my programs with:

[calfkillerotr]

That is cool, I like it.

[Christina]

Hi, I'd love to have an antique radio or replica of one to listen to OTR, but at the moment I don't. I listen to OTR on my laptop and I also have a Sansa Express mp3 player that I put shows on. Usually on Saturday nights a local university has an OTR show on, which I listen to. WECS 90.1 FM You can listen via the computer to that station.
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/wecs/

[Mike Hobart]

No, but I remember one station used to have a show on Saturday nights where they played hits from the 1960s and I always used to make a point of listening to it on my little transistor radio from that era...

[Cheryl]

I listen on my PC, but I do own an antique radio replica. I just don't have it set up at the moment.

[Mike Newton]

Before I got my computer and was able to download all the radio shows, I had (and still have) a 1932 replica of the Crossley radio, tombstone model. Philco also put out the tombstone model, which was very popular. This radio is particularlly special since Crossley was a Cincinnati radio company, which owns WLW, and I live about 25 miles from thereThey used to sell them at Walmart around Christmas, but they were always a little expensive for me. A friend bought me one, the last one the store had, about 9 years ago. It is dark stained brown with a cassette deck on the side. If you were to turn the lights down and play a Inner Sanctum or Whistler show on it, you would not know the difference. My house is about 75 years old and in my kitchen, I have a cellar door that never gets completely closed. You can imagine the feelings I have while listening to my radio in semi-darkness. I have since donated my tapes to a senior nursing home, but I still have a few Bing Crosby Christmas tapes that I play ever year.

[Steve]

I've got a couple of old radios but the guts need replacing and I cant afford to buy new valves etc that I need